CIO

JULY 26, 2023

The future of retail is “phygital,” as every retail and ecommerce publication on the internet is screaming right now. If you’ve never heard the term before, it’s a portmanteau of “physical” and “digital” – and represents the merging of the two forms of retail and shopping. How do they do that? With data of course.

Retail 354

Retail Sales Gaming Technology 354

CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Technology has shifted from a back-office function to a core enabler of business growth, innovation, and competitive advantage. In our fast-changing digital world, it’s essential to sync IT strategies with business objectives for lasting success.

Business 458

Business IT Competitive Landscape Matrix 458

Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Retailers are struggling to keep up with a growing demand for online purchases. As such, retailers have an even tougher job of keeping on top of supply and demand. Using big data and analytics, retailers can more easily optimize their supply chains. Another vital component of many retail businesses is picking and packing orders.

Retail 279

Retail Management Commerce Analysis 279

CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

The retail industry has no shortage of cases on display where generative AI has shown tangible benefits. Suddenly, you can create engaging customer-facing videos at the click of a button,” says Oliver Banks, retail consultant and author of Driving Retail Transformation: How to navigate disruption and change.

Biotech 487

Biotech Banking Retail Innovation 487

CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In addition, the incapacity to properly utilize advanced analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) shut out users hoping for statistical analysis, visualization, and general data-science features. As a result, data teams exhausted valuable time resolving problems and fixing glitches, and the approximately 1.5

Intelligence 495

Intelligence Intelligence Sports Advantage 495

CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

To gain AI advantage at the edge, organizations will need to overcome the challenges of managing, scaling, and securing distributed edge environments. Retail For retailers , AI at the edge powers real-time customer insights, dynamic pricing, floor monitoring, smarter inventory management, and much more.

Retail 440

Retail Predictive Analytics Security Security 440

CIO

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

TPM and TPO are key disciplines in the CPG space that involve managing and optimizing all promotional activities conducted with retailers, from discounts to deductions and payments. This just wasn’t possible with traditional machine learning. Imagine, for instance, the tennis equipment marketplace.

Value Chain 521

Value Chain Sports Retail Innovation 521

CIO

MAY 16, 2023

Behind the scenes at one of South America’s largest retail conglomerates, human resources (HR) professionals manage the movement of tens of thousands of employees. With annual sales in the billions, the retail giant prides itself on delivering superior shopping experiences to customers. The system upgrade corrected this problem.

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Retail Learning Human Resources IT 195

CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Organizations increasingly rely on these tools as they seek to modernize infrastructure, move to the cloud, automate workflows, and gain competitive advantage. It’s learning your habits and adapting itself to what you do,” Herbert explained, pointing to rival tools such as Oracle’s AI-based user experience (UX) platform.

IT 427

IT Retail Advantage Advantage 427

CIO

APRIL 15, 2022

And 20% of IT leaders say machine learning/artificial intelligence will drive the most IT investment. Insights gained from analytics and actions driven by machine learning algorithms can give organizations a competitive advantage, but mistakes can be costly in terms of reputation, revenue, or even lives.

Algorithm 545

Algorithm Hospitals Retail Learning 545

CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

Imagine a factory or a chain of retailers reducing energy and cutting equipment downtime. In each case, they are taking strategic advantage of data generated at the edge, using artificial intelligence and cloud architecture. Watch this video to learn more about how Atos and Dell are enabling game-changing innovation at the edge. [1]

Retail 476

Retail Innovation Gaming Win 476

CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Under the aegis of digital transformation, IT initiatives have become more customer-centric, with a greater emphasis on people, not technology — all in an effort to redefine how the organization operates and to ensure it can keep up with the pace of change, capable of dealing with challenges and taking advantage of opportunities as they arise.

Restaurants 539

Restaurants Retail Innovation Technology 539

CIO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

AI has become a sort of corporate mantra, and machine learning (ML) and gen AI have become additions to the bigger conversation. The role of CIO, especially, has had to adapt accordingly, as demonstrated by Euronics, the Amsterdam-based international electrical retail association. IT must be at the service of the business,” he says.

Management 480

Management Hospitals IT Commerce 480

CIO

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Rather than pull away from big iron in the AI era, Big Blue is leaning into it, with plans in 2025 to release its next-generation Z mainframe , with a Telum II processor and Spyre AI Accelerator Card, positioned to run large language models (LLMs) and machine learning models for fraud detection and other use cases.

Airline 527

Airline Banking Security Security 527

Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

RetailDive recently published an article titled Furniture retailer embraces digital marketing and measures its impact with analytics , which underscores the benefits that analytics offers. Bearing this in mind, taking advantage of the data that is created with every online interaction is crucial to conducting modern business.

Commerce 359

Commerce Retail Advantage Advantage 359

CIO

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The multinational retail company positions itself as a “people-led, tech-powered” one, and sitting squarely at that intersection is generative AI, the power of which most leaders believe is fully realized when the strengths of people and technology are combined. Digital Transformation, Generative AI, IT Strategy, Retail Industry

Retail 514

Retail Innovation Knowledge Research 514

CIO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

“Vendors deliver value, but they also leave a lot of heavy lifting to customers that often impacts their ability to differentiate through their IT investments and gain a competitive advantage,” he says. Far too many businesses have gone ‘all-in’ for a hyperscale environment only to learn they didn’t match their workload to the right cloud.

Hospitals 434

Hospitals Travel Advantage Advantage 434

Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

billion on machine learning by 2030. Keep reading to learn more about the benefits of using AI to create personalized experiences for e-commerce customers. It is a new approach to building enterprise-level applications that enables retailers to stay agile and flexible in an ever-changing marketplace.

Commerce 324

Commerce Retail Advantage Advantage 324

CIO

MARCH 19, 2025

It could be a retail store looking to rework outdated processes and improve the customer experience, or a healthcare network hoping to get a handle on its security posture with enhanced fraud detection. Learn more about how your organization can tap into the power of mainframe data.

Security 195

Security Security Advantage Advantage 195

CIO

APRIL 30, 2024

AI, including Generative AI (GenAI), has emerged as a transformative technology, revolutionizing how machines learn, create, and adapt. Learn more about this here. Retail stores and smart homes can use AI at the edge technology to personalize user experiences. billion in 2027 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 86.1%

Retail 396

Retail Predictive Analytics Algorithm Gaming 396

CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Reasons for this limitation include data sovereignty and residency requirements, the need to support ultra-low latency workloads, and concerns about losing control over mission-critical use cases, such as production assembly lines or retail point-of-sale systems. Interested in learning more?

Retail 468

Retail Market Intelligence Advantage Advantage 468

CIO

MARCH 27, 2024

The quantum technologies team at HSBC works with different business lines and functions to explore and test real world use cases including portfolio optimization, quantum machine learning, and financial simulation. ML is a good example of a use case that will require a hybrid arrangement. Troy Hilterbrand, CIO, Partner.co

Algorithm 526

Algorithm Banking Retail Globalization 526

CIO

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The number of edge sites — factory floors, retail shops, hospitals, and countless other locations — is growing. Spread across all sites, these seemingly small gains can add up quickly when new learnings are replicated and repeated. The HPE GreenLake Advantage. The multiplier effect at work.

Retail 434

Retail Hospitals Advantage Advantage 434

CIO

OCTOBER 9, 2024

We’re at that foundational aspect of anything you can think of that drives a large, complex grocery retailer or fast moving consumer goods,” he says. I’ve learned that being clear, honest, and using a master services agreement to your advantage, rather than just a document that goes in a drawer, is incredibly beneficial for both parties.

Retail 417

Retail Technology Technology Advantage 417

CIO

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Dutch insurance and asset management company Nationale-Nederlanden, part of the NN Group, has a presence in 19 countries and serves several million retail and corporate customers. According to Vaquero, this presented a tremendous advantage, but, at the same time, makes him and his team confront challenges that could disrupt efficiencies.

Advantage 481

Advantage Advantage Retail Innovation 481

CIO

AUGUST 1, 2022

That 50-square-meter workshop in Gaziantep has grown into an international retail business, FLO. Today, FLO is the largest footwear retailer in Turkey. To meet the challenge, the company took “a leap into the future,” turning to digital transformation and a machine learning (ML) solution. Fast forward to the 21 st century.

Sports 370

Sports Retail Win Innovation 370

CIO

MAY 15, 2023

Retail, entertainment, music, and banking have largely moved online. They recognize that innovative use of technology is enabling new business models with competition-crushing advantages built right in. What they learn through such explorations leads to identifying tech-enabled ways to make customers’ lives easier and more convenient.

Innovation 416

Innovation Win Restaurants Entertainment 416

CIO

JULY 12, 2024

As the biggest beauty retailer in the US, it’s critical for Ulta to use technologies that can quickly scale. When you’re really trying to create a competitive advantage, explore new territories, and do something that differentiates you from the competition, low-code allows you to iterate quickly, and play around without the risks, she says.

Startups 468

Startups Innovation Algorithm Retail 468

CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

All consumers say that having the ability to pay how they want is the most important feature retailers offer.”. All other factors being equal, if an individual prefers BNPL, they will take their sale to a retailer that offers that capability. Learn more about Cybersource here. . Digital Transformation, IT Leadership

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Profiling Entertainment Retail Banking 370

Smart Data Collective

MAY 13, 2022

AI and machine learning. Before you can have AI-driven apps, you need to train a machine learning model to do the work. This means feeding the machine with vast amounts of data, from structured to unstructured data, which will help the device learn how to think, process information, and act like humans.

Business 354

Business Predictive Analytics Business Intelligence Analysis 354

CIO

MARCH 29, 2024

That’s why Rocket Mortgage has been a vigorous implementor of machine learning and AI technologies — and why CIO Brian Woodring emphasizes a “human in the loop” AI strategy that will not be pinned down to any one generative AI model. Today, 60% to 70% of Rocket’s workloads run on the cloud, with more than 95% of those workloads in AWS.

Knowledge 502

Knowledge Retail Technology Technology 502

CIO

JANUARY 24, 2025

Historically, AI use has been focused on machine learning in operations such as exploration and drilling in the initial phases of energy production. Now, however, generative AI (genAI) and other forms of digital innovation are helping drive efficiencies closer to the end customer.

Finance 221

Finance Retail Innovation Capital 221

CIO

JUNE 5, 2024

Choose the overall experience At the same time, e-commerce is moving more toward ultra fast fashion, a development led by Chinese fashion retailer Shein. We must find the areas where we should build ourselves and where we should not, but also learn to be innovative with others. I want to implement that culture internally.”

Matrix 431

Matrix IT Commerce Value Chain 431

CIO

MARCH 7, 2024

trillion, underscores the financial advantages of prioritizing social sustainability. Canada, Mexico, Germany, UK, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore) and five industries (Manufacturing, Telecoms & Tech, Retail & CPG, Financial Services, Healthcare & Life Sciences). Learn more about the business case for social responsibility.

Business 396

Business Value Chain Loss Banking 396

Smart Data Collective

JULY 27, 2022

You will also be able to find some of these retailers offer some amazing deals. Read on ahead to learn about some of these ways that are briefly listed below. Due to the communication advantages of using the internet, it is much easier to get in contact directly with the manufacturers. Buy Directly From Manufacturer Websites.

Startups 345

Startups Retail Advantage Advantage 345

CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

This combination promises to deliver newfound capabilities and next-level competitive advantages. For example, real-time analytics are used in retail stores to enhance in-the-moment customer experiences. Private 5G provides advantages over Wi-Fi from a mobility and coverage perspective.

Briefing 397

Briefing Advantage Advantage Security 397

CIO

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As we expand our retail and corporate presence across the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, data residency compliance is a key focus. This choice was bolstered by third-party benchmark reports, which highlighted significant advantages such as approximately 35% lower total cost of ownership (TCO) compared to traditional solutions.

Banking 448

Banking IT Benchmarking Innovation 448